Set up a 2D room

Complete your 2D Puzzle Game

Add an animated pet

2D Essentials: More things to try

Mission 5 Quiz

Unity Essentials: 2D Essentials Quiz

Create a top-down minigame similar to the 3D living room experience, but in 2D.

In this 2D Mission, you'll create a top-down 2D version of the interactive living room scene you created earlier. 

Just like in the 3D scene, you'll control a character, and try to collect all the objects in a room. By completing this scene, you'll learn how working in 2D is similar to working in 3D, but also how it’s different.

2D Essentials

Unity Essentials Pathway

Master the basics of Unity with the Unity Essentials Pathway. Perfect for beginners, this free learning journey introduces game development, 3D content creation, and Unity's core tools. Start building today!

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Unity Essentials is the perfect place to start for beginners to Unity. No previous experience is necessary.

New to Unity? This guided learning Pathway includes everything you need to get started.

Designed for anyone new to Unity, this guided learning journey is your first step toward creating confidently in the Unity Editor and bringing your visions to life. In this learning Pathway, you’ll design different rooms of a house, learning the essentials of one key skillset as you complete each room.

Unity Essentials

Unity Essentials: Install Unity

Open the Unity Essentials project

Explore the Editor Interface

Master 3D scene navigation

Pass the Scene view flying test

Design a mural in the Scene view

Editor Essentials: More things to try

Unity Essentials: Editor Essentials Quiz

Explore a playground scene and design a mural to get comfortable with the Unity interface.

This tutorial series introduces you to the essential skills of navigating the Unity Editor.

You'll learn to navigate 3D space in a playground scene, using Flythrough mode and tools like Move and Rotate to design a mural.

Once you master these skills, you’ll have the foundation required for confidently creating in Unity.

Editor Essentials

Add furniture to the kid’s room

Make a bouncy ball

Make a tower of prefab blocks

Adjust the lights, background, and camera angle

3D Essentials: More things to try

Unity Essentials: 3D Essentials Quiz

Design a kid's bedroom with a bouncing ball and a tower of collapsing building blocks.

In this tutorial series, you'll explore Unity's capabilities by designing a kid's bedroom scene with dynamic elements like a bouncing ball and a tower of blocks. You'll learn new skills in 3D navigation, object customization, and using Unity's physics system. 

You’ll also create prefabs, adjust lighting, and capture your scene with a camera. 

This foundational knowledge is vital to creating any type of Unity project.

3D Essentials

Create an immersive soundscape

Audio Essentials: More things to try

Unity Essentials: Audio Essentials Quiz

Add immersive sound to a kitchen scene with a variety of different types of audio.

In this Audio Mission, you will learn the fundamentals of implementing different types of audio into Unity scenes. You’ll learn how to set the tone with background music, how to add realism with sound effects, and even how to implement spatial audio in a 3D scene.

Audio Essentials

Add a movement script

Create a rotating collectible

Collect the collectible

Programming Essentials: More things to try

Unity Essentials: Programming Essentials Quiz

Add code so that a player character can explore a living room and gather collectibles. 

In this Mission, you’ll program a simple interactive experience where you control a character in a living room scene and move around to collect objects. 

You'll be able to choose from a variety of characters and collectible objects. In our example, we'll use a robot vacuum that maneuvers to pick up dirt around the room.

Programming Essentials

Build your portfolio project

Publish to WebGL

Challenge: Add a bonus scene

Capture a video of your project

Share your project

Combine all of your scenes together into one cohesive portfolio project that you can share with others. 

It's time to collect all your good work together into a singular portfolio piece that you and others can play!

A portfolio, especially in the realm of real-time 3D (RT3D) and game development, is not just a collection of work, but a practical way of demonstrating your familiarity with essential tools and concepts. 

In this Mission, you will package all of your work from this Pathway into a single playable experience that you can easily share with others.


Publishing Essentials

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Overview

Easy: Play around with sprite colors

Expert: Make your level more challenging

Proceed to the next tutorial

5.C.2 - Easy - Play around with Sprite Colors.mp4

5.C.4 - Expert - Make your level more challenging.mp4

Further develop your project and skills with optional challenges of varying difficulty.  

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Mission 5 - 2D Essentials

Try these optional activities to challenge yourself, build your skills, and improve your project!

Each challenge is tagged as Easy, Medium, or Expert difficulty so that you know what to expect. You can do one of them, all of them, or none of them — it’s totally up to you!

Expert:  Make your level more challenging. 

If you’re not interested in doing these challenges, skip to the end of this tutorial to mark it as complete. 

When you made the walls from simple default square sprites, they were white. But you can control the color of sprites from their Sprite Renderer component. 

This optional challenge is classified as Easy difficulty.


1.  From the Hierarchy window, select all four walls. 

2.  In the Sprite Renderer component, for the Color property, select the color box and use the Color window to select a new color for the walls. You can even use the dropper tool to select a color from the existing scene. 

Designing a fun level is more difficult than people think. In game design studios, there are full-time level designers who are responsible for crafting the gameplay space and flow, embedding interactive elements and game mechanics, and refining levels through playtesting to optimize the player's experience. 

Can you make this simple 2D level more fun and challenging to play? 

You might consider drawing inspiration from classic Sokoban puzzle designs. Sokoban is a type of strategy game where the player pushes boxes or crates around in a warehouse, aiming to get them to designated storage locations. The challenge lies in the fact that boxes can only be pushed, not pulled, and the player needs to navigate through tight spaces without getting the boxes stuck against walls or in corners. 

This optional challenge is classified as Expert difficulty. 


1.  Research “Sokoban level” online for inspiration on arranging collectibles in a way that introduces puzzle-solving elements to your level design. 

2.  Duplicate your existing scene to experiment with level design by selecting the scene and pressing Ctrl+D (macOS: Cmd+D). 

That way, if you don’t like your changes, you’ll have a saved copy of your original scene. 

3.  It can be overwhelming to think about level design when you already have a bunch of stuff in your scene — try moving all the furniture off to the side and starting fresh. 

4.  Rearrange the collectibles and furniture in your room in a way that makes it more fun and challenging to play. 

You might need to make some furniture objects immovable by removing their RIgidbody 2D component in order to make the level more challenging. 

5.  Just like a real level designer, have a friend or family member test out your level and see what they think, then iterate on your design.

No matter if you chose to tackle a single challenge, complete them all, or skip them, you're set for the next step. 


Proceed to the next tutorial where you'll complete a quiz and get credit for completing this project.

2D Essentials: More things to try

1. Overview

2. Easy: Play around with sprite colors

3. Expert: Make your level more challenging

4. Proceed to the next tutorial

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